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Thursday, 13 September 2012

Vintage finds: sienna 30's dress

I just blogged about this dress over at Fintage, but I thought I'd also share it with all of you who don't follow that blog.

Lately I’ve been more and more into the fashions of the 30′s. 40′s and
50′s are still my favourite decades, but some of the 30′s silhouettes
and details have also caught my eye. I couldn’t resist myself when
I came across this 30′s, I guess I would call it sienna coloured, dress. And the fact that it fit
almost perfectly didn’t quite help either.

I really like the pleat detail on the front of the skirt and the pouchy
sleeves. You can see it was made before the war as the fabric has been
used profusely: the fold of the hem and seam allowances are at least 2
inches wide, which is lucky for me as there will be plenty of material
to make repairs if necessary.

The dress has a quite interesting closing mechanism. There are snaps on
the shoulder seam and half of the collar also comes off and is attached
with snaps and small hooks. I had to widen the closure on the shoulder
as I had difficulties fitting my big head through it. I also took off
the wadded shoulder pads that had quite lost their shape and raised the
sleeve at least by an inch. When I make alterations to vintage I never cut anything off, unless it's absolutely necessary, so that the item can then be returned to its original form, if someone should want to do so in the future.

At first I was a bit suspicious of the colour as it's quite new and weird for me, but when I tried the dress on I discovered, to my surprise, it actually suits me.

The fabric is a really lovely and heavy rayon crepe weaved with red and peach threads.

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Velcome to Vintage Follies. My name is Leea and I'm a vintage loving girl from Finland. I'm blogging about my sewing, knitting, vintage finds and life style. I love the fashions of the 20's through 50's shoes,dancing, my cats and all the pretty things.